E.I.Q. tests (Emotional Intelligence Quotient Tests)

ABSTRACT

Our minds go through four basic personal realities. The premature reality at birth. The immature reality at child level. The mature reality at adult level. The master-reality at guru level. Stable emotional intelligence means gradually leaving behind each level and accepting the next level consciously and unconsciosly. Unstable emotional intelligence means getting stuck at one of the earlier levels. This humble applicant has created an E.I.Q. test that determines the level of emotional intelligence of each person.

FEDERALLY SPONCERED RESEARCH

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SEQUENCE LISTING OR PROGRAM

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BACKGROUND

[0003] 1. Field of Invention

[0004] This invention relates to a method of testing emotionalintelligence.

[0005] 2. Description of Prior Art

[0006] There is a debate going on whether I.Q. tests have much value. Inthis applicant's humble opinion I.Q. tests are valuable. However, I.Q.tests are incomplete. I.Q. tests do not cover emotional intelligence, anequally essential cognitive ability which is the other half of humanintelligence.

[0007] Education is of two forms. Formal education which comes mainlyfrom the so called 3 Rs—reading, writing and arithmatic. Just asimportant is informal education that one gets mainly from onesupbringing. Formal education develops intelligence and informaleducation develops emotional intelligence. We have I.Q. tests todetermine intelligence. There is no test for determining emotionalintelligence. To overcome this gap, this applicant developed E.I.Q.tests (Emotional Intelligence Quotient Tests)

[0008] The human mind works in images. We grow up, creating images ofourselves, others and the world depending on our childhood experiencingcreating our own personal reality by which we live. When our personalreality matches the actual reality out there we succeed. When ourpersonal reality is different from the actual reality we fail. Thecorrect perception of reality is the key ingredient that determinessuccess or failure in life.

[0009] We can safely say that sound emotional intelligence is thecorrect perception of reality. An unsound emotional intelligence is awrong perception of reality.

[0010] The human mind goes through four stages of development asfollows:

[0011] a) Premature mind: this mind is womb-conditioned. (the consciousexperiences of the fetus in the womb-environment). The personal realityfor each and every human at these stage is womb-reality. The fetus atthis stage feels omnipotent and omnipresent. Just before birth the humanmind is womb-conditioned, shaped by the conscious experiences ofwomb-life.

[0012] A few hours of the birth process do not change the fetus'womb-conditioned mind and at birth the new born child feels omnipotentand omnipresent, just as it felt inside the womb for several months.

[0013] However, my concept of womb-conditioning is contravercial, sojust ignore the above two paragraphs and lets start again the fourstages of human mind development:

[0014] a) Premature mind—the mind at birth when each human being feelsomnipotent and omnipresent. The personal reality at this level is thatthe new born child considers itself all powerful, considers itself allexistence as it is not aware of any one else except itself. Self is allthat matters. It understands nothing. Personal reality is that the selfis omnipotent and omnipresent.

[0015] b) Immature mind—the mind of a child where the child considersitself between omnipotent and helpless. As the child grows olderomnipotence is set aside, goes deeper and deeper into the unconcious,and feelings of helplessness give way to confidence and self-importance.The delicate transistion from feeling of omnipotence to realisticself-importance depend on the child's upbringing. Confusion gives way toclarity. At this stage of the mental level the personal reality is thatself matters most.

[0016] c) Mature mind—the mind of an adult. At this stage the adultconsiders himself most improtant and others equally important. Learnsthe ropes of life. Helps self and family first. Helps others also.

[0017] d) Master mind—the mind of a guru or teacher. At this stage ofthe mind the person considers himself as part of the whole human family.Everyone else is number 1. This level of the mind strives to helpothers, especially the less fortunate.

OBJECTS AND ADVANTAGES

[0018] Several objects and advantages of the present invention are:there are four levels of personal reality. From premature to mastermind. From totally unrealistic to super realistic. Not only can wemeasure the emotional intelligence of individuals, but also of groups,organizations, religion, even countries. Take the example of countrieslike India. I would place India at the immature level.

[0019] At this level the mind is confused between omnipotence andhelplesness. At this stage the mind is an opportunist. When good peopleare in power and the laws of the land are enforcable the citizens arelaw abiding. When bad people are in power the citizens become corrupt.India is a land of opportunists, thus its emotional level is that of aimmature mind.

[0020] The same formula can be applied to conflicts. Take theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict. Both groups are apporching the conflict atthe premature level. As if each exists alone. Imagine if they approachedthe conflict at the master mind level.

SUMMARY

[0021] In accordance with the present invention we can measure emotionalintelligence through Emotional Intelligence Quotient Tests. As there arefour levels of the mind. There are four levels of the emotional mind.Every human mind is stuck emotionally at one of the four levels. Howeverthe same person can be stuck at several levels. For example he may loveone person at the master mind level and hate some group at the prematurelevel. E.I.Q. test is designed to test the personal reality levels ofthe different emotional feelings of the individual, above all thefeelings that each one has towards one's own self.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0022] In accordance with the present invention, a system and method ofevaluating the emotional intelligence of an individual through EmotionalIntelligence Quotient Tests (E.I.Q.).

[0023] The E.I.Q. level which is the same as maturity level or PersonalReality level of each individual can be determined by posing a sequenceof questions that answer and determine the emotional intelligence levelof the individual.

[0024] This is done by taking each human emotion as well as everyemotional memory and asking a list of questions. Each answer is testedagainst the correct answer. The answers are graded according to the fourlevels of the mind, (Emotional Intelligence)

[0025] a) Premature mind: −2

[0026] b) Immature mind: −1

[0027] c) Mature mind: +1

[0028] d) Master mind: +2

[0029] Each emotion is tested one at a time. Love and hate can be testedtogether (−−).

[0030] a) How do you feel about yourself?

[0031] I) I hate myself. The grade for this answer is: (−2).

[0032] 2) I have mixed feelings: (−1)

[0033] 3) I love myself: (+1)

[0034] 4) I am in awe with myself: (+2)

[0035] b) How do you feel about others?

[0036] 1) I hate them: (−2)

[0037] 2) I don't know: (−1)

[0038] 3) I love them enough: (+1)

[0039] 4) I love them as much as I love myself: (+2)

[0040] c) Are you angry?

[0041] 1) Most of the time: (−2)

[0042] 2) Often: (−1)

[0043] 3) Rarely: (+1)

[0044] 4) Never: (+2)

[0045] d) Are you happy with yourself?

[0046] 1) Sometimes extremly happy, other times extremly unhappy: (−2)

[0047] 2) Confused about self: (−1)

[0048] 3) Mostly happy: (+1)

[0049] 4) Always Happy: (+2)

[0050] e) How would you grade your own importance?

[0051] 1) I am the only one that counts: (−2)

[0052] 2) I am most important: (−1)

[0053] 3) I am equally important: (+1)

[0054] 4) I am humble and everyone else is number one for me: (+2)

[0055] Similarly all human emotions and behavior will be graded. Handingout the grades to each individual will also include instructions on howto improve ones emotional intelligence as E.I.Q. can be significantlyimproved by closing the gap between PR and AR.

CONCLUSION

[0056] The human mind grows up absorbing experiences which in turncreate images of ourselves, others and the way the world works. Theseexperiences create a personal reality by which we interpret life. If ourupbringing is healthy we grow up with a personal reality (PR) that isclose to the actual reality (AR) out there. If our upbringing isunhealthy we grow up with our PR different from AR.

[0057] When PR=AR the chances for success are maximum. The aim ofemotional intelligence education has to be to make our personal realityas close as possible to the actual reality. AR can be the benchmark ofemotional intelligence.

1) A process of evaluating emotional intelligence of the indivualthrough Emotional Intelligence Quotient Tests (E.I.Q. Tests). 2) Aseries of questions designed to reveal the emotional intelligence levelof the individual. 3) Said questions to include every human emotion. 4)The Personal Reality (PR) of each indivual to be tested against thebenchmark of Actual Reality(AR). 5) Said E.I.Q. tests to includeinstructions of how to improve emotional intelligence. 6) Formula forsuccess is: PR/AR=1